Lead Data Scientist Contracts

Lead Data Scientist
UK

The median Lead Data Scientist daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 694 836
Rank change year-on-year +115 +142 -118
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Scientist 5 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.005% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.006% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £468 £420 £550
25th Percentile £475 £431 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -24.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £738
90th Percentile £533 - £775
UK excluding London median daily rate - £450 £750
% change year-on-year - -40.00% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Lead Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Lead Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Scientist in the UK

Lead Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Data Scientist.

Daily rate trend for Lead Data Scientist in the UK

Lead Data Scientist
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Data Scientist within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +88 5 £500 +5.26% 17
London +85 4 £500 - 10
Work from Home +114 1 - - 4

Lead Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, Lead Data Scientist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Lead Data Scientist in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
2 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Marketing
3 3 (60.00%) Business Development
3 3 (60.00%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (60.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Data Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Statistics
3 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (60.00%) Lead Generation
4 2 (40.00%) Anomaly Detection
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (40.00%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Marketing Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (40.00%) R
4 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (40.00%) Propensity Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) Degree
5 1 (20.00%) JIRA
5 1 (20.00%) Predictive Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Visualisation

Lead Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Marketing
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Law
4 1 (20.00%) Legal
4 1 (20.00%) Police
4 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Business Development
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Cleansing
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) Lead Generation
2 3 (60.00%) Statistics
3 2 (40.00%) Anomaly Detection
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Marketing Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Propensity Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Content Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Fintech
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Discovery
4 1 (20.00%) OSINT
4 1 (20.00%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Numerate Degree
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Salesforce